COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



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Class D, long barbs, square at ends, peculiar to England, Ireland, and Georgia, 



United States. Six specimens. 

 Class E, triangular in section, peculiar to the province of Chiriqui, Panama. 



Eight specimens. 

 Class F, broadest at cutting ends traiichant transversal peculiar to Western 



Europe. Nine specimens. 

 Class G, slate and polished, peculiar in North America to the Eskimo country, 



and to New England and New York. Ten specimens. 



Fig. 28. 



CEREMONIAL OBJECTS? OR &quot;BANNER STONES.&quot; 



83, Serpentine, Virginia; 84, serpentine, Pennsylvania; 85, striped slate, Wisconsin; 86, striped slate, Indiana; 87, striped slate, 

 Pennsylvania ; 88, brown jasper, Louisiana; 90, striped slate, Indiana ; 91, ferruginous quartz, Indiana; 92, striped slate, Indiana. 



SUPPOSED CEREMONIAL OBJECTS. 



Banner stones, drilled tablets, boat-shaped and bird-shaped objects, etc. The names 

 given to these objects are no indication of their use, which is only conjectural. 

 They are all American, and are found in mounds and aboriginal graves, some of 

 them so associated with human skeletons as to indicate their use as personal 

 ornaments. They may .have served as charms, amulets, or, as the general name 

 above suggests, foi occasions of ceremony. Some have been drilled for suspen- 



